Priya Saloni Dhawan

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VP of Engineering at Compass Bio · rate limiting, Django

Compass Bio
Jaipur, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
13+ years experience
IIT Bombay
English, Hindi
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Overview

I've spent 24 years on API platforms - first at Samsung R&D, now at Compass Bio. Reduced cloud spend on public API by 38% in two quarters. Before that: Meesho and Razorpay. Most at home with Django and PostgreSQL.

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Skills
rate limitingErlang/OTPPostgreSQLPythonDjango
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Hiring a staff security engineer for the public API team - Jaipur or remote

Role
Staff security engineer
Level
Staff / Principal
Type
Contract
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
₹42-80 LPA
Team
Public API, 9 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Django Production experience with Erlang/OTP Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹37-46 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Jaipur, India · remote OKdjangoerlang/otppostgresql
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Compass Bio · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Led the migration of 73 services to Erlang/OTP.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 26% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 36 a week to 3.
  2. Director of Engineering
    May 2022 - Oct 2024
    Meesho · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 494ms to 50ms.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2020 - May 2022
    Razorpay · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Grew the public API team from 5 to 17 engineers.
  4. Staff Backend Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
    Atlassian · 2 yr 3 mo · Contract · Jaipur, India
    • Wrote the rate limiting service that now handles 89 million requests a day.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Nov 2013 - Sep 2017
    Samsung R&D · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 2.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 42% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    1997 - 2001

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